23 Nov
2016
23 Nov
'16
6:08 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum 10353@lyskom.lysator.liu.se wrote:
If there are no character values >127, then the encoding step is a no-op, so skipping it buys you nothing except making your code harder to read.
I envision a future time when we can usefully distinguish between string(21bit) and string(8bit), with string(7bit) being trivially transformed into either of the above. As such, calling utf8_to_string or string_to_utf8 would be an actual type conversion (albeit of a subtype, rather than actually requiring any major changes).
ChrisA